high five

• high-five

From high and five. The ‘five’ refers to the five fingers on each hand.

• IPA^(key): /haɪ faɪv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /haɪ faɪv/

high five (countable and uncountable, plural high fives)

1. A gesture of celebration or victory in which two people slap their hands together at shoulder height or higher.
2. (card games, uncountable) The game of cinch.

• fist bump
• high ten
• low five
• too slow

• gimme five
• low five
• slap someone five

high five (third-person singular simple present high fives, present participle high fiving, simple past and past participle high fived)

1. To slap high fives.
   • 2012 March 30, Joe Levy, “Rockers at Sea”, in The New York Times‎:

     Like a lot of my fellow passengers — indie-rock fans who had signed up for a three-day voyage full of bands and beverages — I’d never been on a cruise before. So I don’t know whether most of them begin with a staff member high-fiving each and every person who comes off the gangway.